Anthropocene India: Stemming the Tide of Gender-Based Violence | Chapter 7 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 9

 Gender balance signifies a higher level of human incident indices and indicates a nation's overall human rights records.  The Paris Protocols of Agenda-2030 require Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for all sex and age groups of Hom sapiens. The level and degree of masculine inequality all along the Anthropocene epoch (1950 onwards) are evenly mounting in India as per the available dossier. Gender-based violence (GBV) enclosed under SDG-5 has adversely jolted the social, economic, governmental, and cultural structure of association resulting in the deterioration of liberty, equality, nobility, and freedom especially for feebler sections.The present work includes the quantitative and qualitative inspection of their condition in patriarchal and feudal people, underlying socio-demographic determinants abetting material violence, frequency of incident and their social consequences, and differing factors providing directly and indirectly to that shameful status of girl offspring, women, and LGBT society. The article correlates different features of the Anthropocene epoch like feeling challenges, global warming, ocean's surface rise, and environmental degradations providing to gender inequality and GBV.  The complete confinement in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain distortions and deficit of livelihood of millions of Indians has annoyed social problems like tradition and rape cases, intimate partner intensity, kidnapping, gambling, inhaling, and drug trafficking.  The Authors focus on steps towards realizing gender equality and lady-child authorization (SDG-5) during the Anthropocene epoch through friendly, economic, and legal method for building equal and impartial societal order.

Author(s) Details:

Siba Prasad Mishra,
Department of Civil Engineering, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Durga Prasad Mishra  ,
KIIT School of Management, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Saswat Mishra,
Civil Engineering Department, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

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